The billionaire says he will visit Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa to engage with entrepreneurs.

Long regarded as an open source community shirker, Apple has has boosted its OS credentials by joining the Data Transfer Project.

The home affairs portfolio committee turns to social media to strengthen its oversight work.

Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook are up and running again after the social media giant resolved the technical glitch that caused the outage yesterday.

Telegram users in the Americas and other countries experienced connection issues.

South Africans turned to Google for voting information, while photo-sharing apps like Instagram were used to showcase their marks in the sixth democratic election.

South African political parties have been hard at work using social media as a tool to reach voters, hoping these online efforts will translate into votes.

The social media giant outlines plans to create an independent oversight board to provide guidelines around implementing a level of censorship on the platform.

Companies should implement social media training programmes to stop reputational risks posed by staff online, says privacyconsulting's Russell Nel.

Researchers from the University of Oxford and Stanford University argue Facebook should make changes to aid democracy and free speech.

Facebook, Google, Twitter and Liberty were among companies subjected to major data breaches in 2018.

Twitter shares fell almost 7% after the company said it was investigating unusual traffic that might be from state-sponsored hackers.